#Modern Irken is too vague with little to no pronouns and articles

[mrehkka]

Never posted any of my Mrehkka art here! Despite it being the character I used for my username lol

(Also forgot to note on the images, but the tail is retractable like the arms!)

so Mrehkka is from an ancient book about his life- how he went from being a simple and beloved model to Irk's greatest hero, saving them from annihilation from an invading species they used to share the planet with. .....it's also famous among other aliens for being Irk's only (surviving) love story, though in modern translations, the romantic bits are downplayed and translated out. Only those chosen to learn Classic Irken (rare) get to read the original (it's their only surviving text written in Classic, anything else has just been translated INTO Classic). No other alien knows Classic as they keep it highly classified (they use it for military abbreviations).

And as it was written in a time before PAK's, many aliens use the story to study Irken psychology and what they might be like if they didn't have PAKs.

THEN there's Squin-Zinn (sometimes spelled Squin-Zin). They are a third species that also lived on Irk back then. Also Mrehkka's lover 😌 they're the one who warned Mrehkka and his people about the incoming army. Though, they eventually regret this, as it's eventually made clear that Mrehkka will die fighting to protect everyone, and they beg him to stop and run away, but Mrehkka tells them "I would fight for you, if it meant I could die in your arms". ...which he then proceeds to do.

the story in modern Irken culture is framed as, Mrehkka died protecting his people and you should be just like that :D aaaand they kinda downplay Squin-Zinn bc they don't want anyone to end up thinking "Mrehkka fought to protect one person, and died for THEM not Irken society" bc that could be bad...